Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] virtio-pci: towards virtio 1.0 guest support

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Jan 20 2015 - 11:33:08 EST


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:07:00PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > BTW: is there a tool (or pciutils patch) which can decode the virtio
> > capabilities?
>
> Searched for a patch today, and all google found me was this mail asking
> for one :-o
>
> So I went ahead and coded one up. Attached.
>
> While hacking it up I've noticed spec doesn't match reality. The
> "Virtio Structure PCI Capabilities" section here ...
>
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/cs01/virtio-v1.0-cs01.html#x1-690004
>
> ... doesn't match what qemu is doing. Huh?

Thanks a lot for the report, and the tool!
I sent patches to fix this all up.
You can try my qemu and linux virtio-net branches now,
they should be spec compliant.

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